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5032 articles available in total starting from 20/05/2002. Last article published on 18/02/2020.

Never-ending nightmare in Die Tür

After Green Desert (1999), Kebab Connection in 2005 (both winners of festival Audience Awards) and Where Is Fred? (2006), Anno Saul has been shooting his fourth feature, Die Tür ("The Door"), in...  

01/04/2008 | Production | Germany

Mastandrea’s prodigal son returns

In one of the funniest and most significant scenes in Don’t Think About It, main character Stefano (Valerio Mastandrea) uses his lighter to make his way through a cemetery at night, in search of...  

01/04/2008 | Production | Italy

Akin and Tukur to star in Costa-Gavras’ Eden is West

Costa-Gavras’ Eden is West (see news) has a very European cast with young Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio (My Brother Is an Only Child) playing the lead role alongside German director Fatih Akin,...  

31/03/2008 | Production | France

Guédiguian’s L'Armée du crime looks at Resistance

Robert Guédiguian’s latest film, the thriller Lady Jane – which was unveiled in competition at Berlin – will be released in French theatres on April 9. Meanwhile, the director is already working...  

31/03/2008 | Production | France

Sleep according to Piekorz

Magdalena Piekorz, the director of The Welts, which won the Golden Lion at the Gdynia Polish Film Festival in 2004, is currently shooting her second feature. Sennosc (“Sleep”), like The Welts, is...  

31/03/2008 | Production | Poland

Lucini’s tailor-made ensemble football

One of the move beloved (and mourned) coaches in the history of Italian football, Trieste native Nereo Rocco lends one of his infamous sayings to Luca Lucini’s new film Amore bugie & calcetto...  

28/03/2008 | Production | Italy

Assessment 2007 (3): Funding mandates on the rise

Dependent upon a system of diversified funding, French film production is, however, undergoing certain changes worth watching in terms of investment sources, as revealed in the 2007 assessment by...  

27/03/2008 | Production | France

Assessment 2007 (2): 95 international co-productions

The fine form of French cinema (see assessment news, Part 1) revealed to the press by the National Centre for Cinematography (CNC) on the occasion of the 2007 production assessment has also had a...  

27/03/2008 | Production | France

Assessment 2007 (1): A very good year

With 228 features accredited in 2007, including 185 French Initiative Films (FIF), it was an excellent year for French film production, marked by a record level of investment and a reduction in...  

27/03/2008 | Production | France

Paolo Franchi’s ambitiously fallen heroes

An existential noir full of pietas is, according to director Paolo Franchi, the deepest meaning of his second feature, Fallen Heroes, in competition at the latest Venice Film Festival. After his...  

26/03/2008 | Production | Italy

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